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Grace Gale
12+ albums
post-hardcorehardcorescreamosasscoreemo
about
Grace Gale has called it quits! This is a story of natural reinvention. The Denver-based band that used to take pleasure in blowing kids faces off with their hardcore/screamo style, now comes up in the Google sidebar of boys and girls searching for Panic! At the Disco and Brand New. No know-it-all record label guy was calling the shots; it just happened. As the dust settled from their 2005 debut release A Few Easy Steps to Secure Heli Camel Safety, Grace Gale suffered a massive lineup change and all but two original members remained. Guitarist Rex Madden, 25, and drummer Graham Cheek, 22, were left holding the reigns of the band, but instead of letting them go, they strapped in and pulled them back tight. “Our original lineup all went to high school together,” guitarist Rex Madden says. “But after our first record came out, our guitar player left to pursue other things. We replaced him with Nate [McCartney], and then a year ago we lost our singer. We didn’t have one for about nine months while we were writing our new record.” Enter Joel Owen, a 28-year-old musician who had been in and out of bands since the age of 10. “I was raised in a very musical family, so I got it honest as they say,” he muses. “My cousins, uncles, aunts, mom, and dad were all musicians. My mom was a big piano freak, plus my parents were southern Baptists, so I was raised in church. I was in the church choir, the school choir, and took piano lessons. Once I got into junior high school I started tr
